普通话

Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech

general / popular / everywhere / universal

common / ordinary / general / average

to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc

classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)

to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

old variant of 話|话[hua4]

(coll.) Mandarin Chinese spoken with a thick regional accent

Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994